Windows Explorer and Windows Mail

[The Old Bloke]

Windows Mail (used for NGs only) will now only work if I run as
administrator.

Now it has happened with Windows Explorer. If I start it normally I can see
that it finds the site, and then it just sits there with a blank window. No
error messages. If I run it as administrator then all works. And if I
click on a web address in NGs. it also works.

Now this problem didn't exist earlier today. The only "change" that
happened today was a Vista update.

Anyone make sense of this?

That's problem #1

Problem #2

With my problems in Vista, I have looked at System Restore a few times in
the last few days.

There has *never* been more than one restore point to choose from, and
usually it has been created an hour or so earlier. So useless.

Vista allocates a max 15% of the HDD for system restore., and is supposed to
only delete older restore points if it gets near this limit. My wife's
Vista PC has many saved restore points.

Any help is appreciated
Regards
Doug

 

[Mark Veldhuis]

Hi,

With my problems in Vista, I have looked at System Restore a few times in
the last few days.

There has *never* been more than one restore point to choose from, and
usually it has been created an hour or so earlier. So useless.

One known cause of disappearing restore points is dual-booting with XP.
Do you do that on your system?

 

[The Old Bloke]

Hi,





One known cause of disappearing restore points is dual-booting with XP.
Do you do that on your system?

Ahah! Yes, I do. I dual boot because my TV Tuner card refuses to work
properly with Vista, even though it is "Vista ready". I am surprised as I
am using separate HDDs for the dual boot, not just a partition. That sounds
like a Vista bug?

Regards

 

[Mark Veldhuis]

Ahah! Yes, I do. I dual boot because my TV Tuner card refuses to work
properly with Vista, even though it is "Vista ready". I am surprised as I
am using separate HDDs for the dual boot, not just a partition. That sounds
like a Vista bug?

"This problem occurs because the volume snapshot driver that is included
with Windows Vista and with Windows Server "Longhorn" uses disk
structures that are incompatible with earlier versions of Windows.
Therefore, the earlier operating system deletes Windows Vista shadow
copies or Windows Server "Longhorn" shadow copies together with the
associated restore points. This behavior occurs because the earlier
Windows operating systems do not recognize the new disk structures."

That quote comes from:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185

 

[The Old Bloke]

"This problem occurs because the volume snapshot driver that is included
with Windows Vista and with Windows Server "Longhorn" uses disk
structures that are incompatible with earlier versions of Windows.
Therefore, the earlier operating system deletes Windows Vista shadow
copies or Windows Server "Longhorn" shadow copies together with the
associated restore points. This behavior occurs because the earlier
Windows operating systems do not recognize the new disk structures."

That quote comes from:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185

Hi Mark,

That is clearly the problem, but it beats me how XP on disk4 can delete
restore points on Disk0.

Thank you very much for finding the cause of this problem. I was close to
reinstalling Vista, but now know that it won't solve the problem.

I will try disabling SR in XP, but if it was that easy I think MS would have
said so.

Regards from Aus,
Doug